This is the fifth episode of the ILO’s Social Finance Podcast on financial inclusion, impact insurance and sustainable investing. The podcast brings you insights from around the world, highlighting how financial services contribute to social and economic development.

In this episode, we take a deep dive into the risks faced by women throughout their lifetimes. Lisa Morgan, Technical Specialist at the ILO, speaks with Jane Portas about her work on Risks in Life, the 6 Moments That Matter framework for securing fair financial futures, and Insuring Women’s Futures, a voluntary, public trust program Jane co-founded, hosted by the UK’s Chartered Insurance Institute. They discuss the “6 Moments That Matter” for women’s financial resilience, how insurers can respond and the role of men in women’s financial futures.

You can find out more about The Risks in Life Series of reports for practitioners and policymakers, financial wellbeing materials to empower girls and women, and 6 Moments That Matter at www.6momentsthatmatter.com. This also includes a recent report on the role of financial services and employers in addressing economic abuse and the first preventative financial wellbeing guide for women (Controlling Your Financial Future – 6 Moments That Matter for Girls & Women, based on research and survivor experience). If you’d like to find out about Insuring women’s Futures visit https://www.insuringwomensfutures.co.uk/.

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This is the fourth episode of the ILO’s Social Finance Podcast on financial inclusion, impact insurance and sustainable investing. The podcast brings you insights from around the world, highlighting how financial services contribute to social and economic development.

In this episode, we look at why and how impact investors are promoting employment as an impact theme. Lisa Morgan, Technical Specialist at the ILO, speaks with Amit Bouri, founder and CEO of the Global Impact Investment Network (the GIIN) and Patricia Richter, Senior Technical Officer at the ILO. They talk about the fundamental role that decent work and quality jobs play in sustainable development and how investors can leverage their financing to contribute positively to employment outcomes that address today’s pressing issues. They highlight the collaboration between the GIIN and its members with the ILO, including the work on developing quality jobs investment strategies and metrics for measuring impact achieved.

You can find out more about all the resources discussed in this podcast at:

GIIN - Annual Impact Investor survey 2020: https://thegiin.org/research/publication/impinv-survey-2020

IRIS+: https://iris.thegiin.org/

Quality Jobs theme – IRIS+: https://navigatingimpact.thegiin.org/quality-jobs/outcomes/impacts/

To all our listeners, this is your podcast! We want to cover the topics that interest you. Feel free to send us your ideas for future episodes and we will do what we can to include them. Email: [email protected].

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The transcript for this episode is available on the ILO website: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/article/wcms_831229.pdf

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on the world of work. Lockdowns, restrictions on activity and movement, and economic turmoil have cut working hours and resulted in the elimination of millions of jobs.

Preliminary evidence suggests that the recovery is not benefiting women and men equally, once again leaving women behind. The impact on women, and especially young women, has been catastrophic.

Yet much has been learned since the start of this crisis, and a clearer picture of its impact on jobs—especially among women in the world of work—has emerged, as has an awareness about what kind of policy responses can safeguard jobs and support recovery.

Guest: Valeria Esquivel, Employment Policies and Gender specialist in the Employment, Labour Market and Youth Branch of the ILO’s Employment Policy Department

This is the third episode of the ILO’s Social Finance Podcast on financial inclusion, impact insurance and sustainable investing. The podcast brings you insights from around the world, highlighting how financial services contribute to social and economic development.

In Episode 3, we look at digital solutions for inclusive insurance. Lisa Morgan, Technical Specialist at the ILO, speaks with Jeremy Leach and Sam Ndori from Inclusivity Solutions about their work digitizing insurance across Africa. They talk about the opportunities for digital solutions to create a seamless customer journey, and the challenges of bringing together the partners needed to make that possible. Jeremy and Sam also give their advice for others embarking on digital insurance project during the COVID-19 pandemic – “the biggest learning moment the insurance world has ever seen”.

To all our listeners, this is your podcast! We want to cover the topics that interest you. Feel free to send us your ideas for future episodes and we will do what we can to include them. Email: [email protected].

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The transcript for this episode is available on the ILO website: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/documents/article/wcms_828345.pdf

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Ce podcast plus long et plus approfondi (en français) examine les causes profondes communes du travail des enfants et du travail forcé en Côte d’Ivoire. Le podcast explore les actions des organisations d’employeurs et du gouvernement qui ont particulièrement bien réussi à s’attaquer à ces deux fléaux et esquisse les prochaines étapes. Le podcast présente des interviews avec Edouard Ladouyou de la Confédération Générale des Entreprises de Côte d’Ivoire (CGECI, un membre de la OIT GBNFL), Mariame Bédié du Groupement Professionnel des Exportateurs de Café et de Cacao, et Ndri Koffi de l’Union Nationale de Entreprises Agricoles et Forestières.

Ulrika Bonnier from The Transnational Alliance to Combat Illicit Trade (TRACIT), an ILO GBNFL member, tells us how child and forced labour are linked to crimes and criminal networks and proposes actions.

WWF expert Corey Norton sets out how environmental degradation, child and forced labour are linked, and what some of the solutions are. This short podcast looks in particular at fisheries crimes.

This short podcast episode features an interview with Rainforest Alliance expert, Rachel Rigby, on how climate change increases vulnerability to child and forced labour and what we can do about it.

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the world’s young workers hard. While the pandemic has had an unprecedented impact across the global workforce, youth have suffered greater job losses than other age groups.

According to the latest ILO statistical update on the impact of COVID, which came out just before World Youth Skills Day on 15 July, employment of young people aged 15 to 24 fell sharply in 2020.

What’s more, the crisis and lockdown measures constrained young people from even looking for work, increasing the so-called NEETs—young people not in employment, education, and training—last year, leaving young people worse off for years to come.

In this podcast, we hear from ILO senior youth employment experts Niall O’Higgins and Sher Verick on the situation now, and where we are headed.

Two billion people – more than six out of ten workers in the world – make their living in the informal economy. The ILO estimates that some 1.6 billion of these workers have been significantly impacted by the COVID pandemic. Among them, women and young workers have been particularly hard hit.

What is to be done? One emerging solution is technology. The ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work recognizes the role of technological innovation in driving change in the world of work and its human-centred approach, and promotes harnessing the potential of technological progress to achieve decent work and sustainable development.

In this podcast, ILO Employment Policy Specialist Juan Chacaltana and Technical Officer, Vicky Leung discuss emerging policy trends in how technology can facilitate the transition to the formal economy, or e-formality, and some of the challenges.